[ltp] USB memory pen

[Tod Harter]

I would assume those pens act as a USB Storage device. That means that they're 
essentially a removable drive as far as Linux is concerned. In Mandrake at 
least you can access them right off your desktop.

Unfortunately, booting has nothing to do with the OS, beyond how do you 
install a boot loader. Well, in the case of Linux its pretty easy to install 
lilo or grub on the boot sector of your pen, but then you have the problem 
that your PC BIOS would have to be smart enough to try to boot off it.... I 
suspect thats where your problem lies. Either the BIOS can, or it cannot.

Now, you can still boot off the disk even so by setting up the boot loader on 
your fixed hard drive properly. In other words grub installed on /dev/hda is 
perfectly happy to boot an OS off /dev/sda1 (as an example). So if that works 
for you then just go on in and edit your grub or lilo configuration 
appropriately! 

On Saturday 25 January 2003 06:46 am, Gerard van Winssen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there anyone who has been able to boot off A USB memory pen?
> With the (win) utility that comes with the pen, you can do almost all the
> things you can do with a normal H.D. such as farmat and make bootable.
> Unfortunately the latter option doesn't work in W2K.
> So I tried with cfdisk under linux to make the pen bootable without succes.
>
> My TP R31 bios says it can boot from USB floppy drive.
>
> In the meantime I made A bootable cd, with ps2 on it, but I can't write to
> cd offcourse.
>
> TIA

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Tod Harter
Giant Electronic Brain